Many Drexel Nanomaterials Institute students and alumni are in attendance at the Fall MRS Meeting in Boston, MA this week. DNI student, Kathleen Maleski also got the Best Poster nomination from her symposium, as did Dr. Babak Anasori for his symposium.

This recognition is based on the number of papers that are within the top 1% in the materials science field. This is clearly the result of excellent work of our extremely productive A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute.

Drexel University students have been very successful in winning the prestigious Boren Fellowship. Our very own PhD student, Amanda Pentecost, is one of them. Only about 10% out of 250 or so combined Boren scholars and fellows are science/technology/engineering majors. Read the full story here.

Three papers from the DNI are listed as ISI Hot Papers (0.1% of all publications in the field in the past 2 years!). This indicates the highest rate of citations within the academic field and is the highest recognition for publications from ISI.

Our review of nanodiamond is on the list of top 10 most read papers in Nature Nano, 5 years after publication.

This is a phenomenal performance showing continuing interest to the subject, but also the impact of that specific paper – 8 of 10. Most read are 2016 papers. Long lifetime shows a real impact of the paper.